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Putin's birds catch jet plane home
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin's stunt of trying to lead endangered cranes on their winter migration has backfired.The 60-year-old president already earned mockery last month when he took to a motorised hang glider to guide the half dozen of the Siberian cranes - all hatched in captivity - over Russia's frozen north. Yet the news grew even worse for Mr Putin when the Rosprirodnadzor environmental oversight agency revealed that the birds he had guided on the way to Siberia's far northern Yamal region failed to fly on further south. They were put - in an almost farcical twist - like passengers on an aeroplane and flown back home to the sanctuary in the Ryazan region of central Russia where they had been raised. "The Siberian cranes took a flight back with the ornithologists last night," Interfax quoted an unnamed source at the Federal Service for Natural Resources Oversight (Rosprirodnadzor) as saying. Posted by: tipper 2012-10-10 |
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